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A Giant Underwood Typewriter at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915

A Giant Underwood Typewriter at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915
The Underwood Typewriter Company operated an enormous typewriter that was designed to impress fair-goers at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was "a world's fair held in San Francisco, in the United States, between February 20 and December 4 in 1915."

The company later exhibited another giant typewriter at the New York World's Fair in 1939 (see postcard image below).

Text from the front of this postcard:

The $100,000.00 Typewriter

An exact reproduction of "The Machine You Will Eventually [Buy]."

Westward ho! Over the Rockies we go! On our way to the Golden Gate, we will see deserts, prairies, cowboys, ranches, mountains, canyons, and the wonders of the West! The Orient, the Occident, the South Seas, the Arctic--all the world will be there. Meet us in the Palace of Liberal Arts, Court of the Universe, San Francisco.

An Underwood Typewriter

1,728 times larger than the Standard Underwood. Weight 14 tons - 28,000 lbs. Dimensions in action 21 feet wide by 15 feet high. Writing daily at the Underwood Exhibit, Palace of Liberal Arts, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915.

A Giant Underwood Typewriter at the New York World's Fair, 1939

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Comments
 Roger Dodger
Roger Dodger
-- -- not a portable then?
10 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Roger Dodger
No, I guess not! But this one appears to be portable! 8-)

Giant Portable Underwood Typewriter
10 years ago.
 tarboat
tarboat club
I was convinced, and actually own one of the small ones just like this. Not much use for email though. :-)
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to tarboat club
You probably just need to buy a compatible monitor to use it for e-mail! 8-)
10 years ago.

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